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Reveal Day 13 June 2012 - New gTLD Applied-For Strings — Enter the terms you wish to search for. — ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet's addressing system. What is a gTLD?

MacBook Pro with Retina Display Teardown — This is it: The Chosen One of MacBook Pros. While other MBPs were gifted only the standard annual updates, this particular model was bestowed with a Retina display, a thinner profile, two Thunderbolt ports, a full sized HDMI port, and less annoying cooling fans.

Why Zynga is Shedding Users — Social gaming company Zynga had an outstanding 2011, leading to a well-hyped IPO in December. But Zynga's biggest risk was always an over-reliance on Facebook, with most of its revenue and users coming from the social network.

U.S. Probes Cable for Limits on Net Video — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter.

Denials Over Google Street View — Google has long prided itself on not being a conventional company. But there is one characteristic it apparently shares with the most sclerotic bureaucracy: the willingness of its employees to say, “Not my job.” — The company on Tuesday released a trove …

Exclusive: China's Hudong.com raising $50 million — Chinese encyclopedia wiki returns to VC market. — FORTUNE — Hudong.com, a Chinese-language encyclopedia wiki, is raising up to $50 million in Series C funding, Fortune has learned. — The money is being raised, at least in part …

iOS 6 Hands-On: iTunes Match Now Streams Music — One of the new additions to iCloud and iTunes was iTunes Match, which is a service that lets you store your iTunes library in iCloud. It costs $24.99/year, and the system works by matching any of your music with the iTunes Store, and any unmatched songs are uploaded.

Tin Pan Valley: The Coming Shakeout for App Makers — Like the Early Music Industry, Today's Apps Are ‘Made’ By Marketing, Sales — They were 20-somethings emboldened by new technology. If they were shrewd, they just might get rich. — These inventors and wheedlers, dreamers and hucksters …

Analysis: Apple's big enemy in smartphone wars: delay — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has spent nearly three years fighting its rivals in a global smartphone patent war. Now, setbacks in two key U.S. court cases are laying bare why a drawn-out battle could be bad news for the iPhone maker.

Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists — (Reuters) - The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer. — Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world.